Background
Rabbi Hadaya was born in 1889 in Jerusalem, the son of rabbi Shalom Hedaya from Aleppo, Ottoman Syria.
Rabbi Hadaya was born in 1889 in Jerusalem, the son of rabbi Shalom Hedaya from Aleppo, Ottoman Syria.
In 1945, he succeeded his father as head of the Yeshivat haMekubalim (Kabbalists Yeshiva) at Beit El Synagogue, the center of kabbalistic study in Jerusalem.